Poems

Madge: Ye Hoyden At Madge, ye hoyden, gossips scofft, Ffor that a romping wench was shee– “Now marke this rede,” they bade her oft, “Forsooken sholde […]

Marthy’s younkit The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it in its play; The […]

Mary smith Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name was Mary Smith; And […]

Mediaeval eventide song Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night, For yonder fares an angell yclad in raimaunt white, And yonder sings ye […]

Mother and child One night a tiny dewdrop fell Into the bosom of a rose,– “Dear little one, I love thee well, Be ever here thy […]

Mother and sphinx (EGYPTIAN FOLK-SONG) Grim is the face that looks into the night Over the stretch of sands; A sullen rock in a sea of […]

Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun Thar showed up out’n Denver in the spring uv ’81 A man who’d worked with Dana on the Noo […]

My playmates The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool– Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool; It brings me soothing […]

Mysterious doings As once I rambled in the woods I chanced to spy amid the brake A huntsman ride his way beside A fair and passing […]

Norse lullaby The sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night, And this is the song the storm-king […]